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Harlem Nights

They're up to something big.

1989 · 1h 56m · R Comedy, Crime, Drama
Directed by Eddie Murphy

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Overview

'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.

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Rotten

Does it matter to Eddie Murphy whether Harlem Nights is good or bad? It doesn't look like it.

Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Rotten

Once there was Freddy. Once there was Chuckie and Jason and Howard the Duck. Now there is the scariest of them all. Now there is Harlem Nights.

Hal Hinson, Washington Post
Rotten

An uninspired cross between Cotton Club and the characters of Damon Runyon, told in cliches so broad you keep waiting for it to poke fun at itself, but it never does.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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